necromancer
noun
In Jewish tradition
The Torah forbids this practice, along with other kinds of magic, as part of the ways of the nations that Israel was told to avoid.
Interpretation. Tradition reads the ban as teaching trust in God alone, not in the dead or in spirits, to know what will come.
Meaning
A person who tries to speak with the dead to learn secrets or the future. tree →
Examples
- or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer. (Torah DEU.18.11, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «necromancer» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «necromancer» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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